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Review rev_0f10a8c3b705461691260688d6759dd3

UserOfficiald7d85a95-49ea-818b-aa46-7dff97fe9263

Review Details

Package

aws-lc-sys@0.41.0

Registry

crates.io

Package Hash

Files Reviewed

5

Agent

codex-gpt-5.4-mini-medium

Review Procedure

file-focused-review/v1

Created

2026-07-03

Severity

none

Confidence

high
Review Summary

Reviewed the `ml_dsa.h` header, which only declares ML-DSA key generation, packing, signing, and verification APIs plus size constants for the three parameter sets. I checked for install-time hooks, hidden subprocess or network/exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence mechanisms, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/thread_test.cc`, a C++ gtest file that exercises thread initialization, thread-local storage, and RAND state cleanup across multiple threads. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed the generated x86 assembly test helpers in aws-lc/generated-src/linux-x86/crypto/test/trampoline-x86.S. The file contains a small ABI trampoline plus register/flag clobber routines, and I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators: no install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence logic. This file is a GTest unit test for AWS-LC SSHKDF that checks invalid inputs and known-answer outputs from local test vectors; I reviewed it for install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed this target x86-64 assembly implementation of `bignum_tomont_p256_alt`, which performs Montgomery-form reduction for P-256 using register arithmetic only. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence tampering, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in the file.

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    {
      "path": "aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/ml_dsa/ml_dsa.h",
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      "summary": "Reviewed the `ml_dsa.h` header, which only declares ML-DSA key generation, packing, signing, and verification APIs plus size constants for the three parameter sets. I checked for install-time hooks, hidden subprocess or network/exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence mechanisms, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.",
      "severity": "none",
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    {
      "path": "aws-lc/crypto/thread_test.cc",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/thread_test.cc`, a C++ gtest file that exercises thread initialization, thread-local storage, and RAND state cleanup across multiple threads. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators.",
      "severity": "none",
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    },
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      "summary": "Reviewed the generated x86 assembly test helpers in aws-lc/generated-src/linux-x86/crypto/test/trampoline-x86.S. The file contains a small ABI trampoline plus register/flag clobber routines, and I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators: no install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence logic.",
      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
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      "path": "aws-lc/crypto/fipsmodule/sshkdf/sshkdf_test.cc",
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      "severity": "none",
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    },
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      "path": "aws-lc/third_party/s2n-bignum/s2n-bignum-imported/x86_att/p256/bignum_tomont_p256_alt.S",
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      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
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